Victor B. Lieberman

Biography:
Professor of History, Dept. of History, app’t 1984
B.A. Yale University, 1967
Ph.D, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1975

Number of Theses/Dissertations Supervised in Past 5 Years: 9

Research/Teaching Specializations: Early modern Southeast Asian history; early modern comparative world history; early Southeast Asian economic history

Courses Taught: Southeast Asian Civilization, Vietnam War, Early Modern Southeast Asia, History of Burma, Third world historiography, Southeast Asian Research Colloquium
Field Research: Malaysia: 1992, research/conference visits; Indonesia: 1993; United Kingdom: 1995

Recent Publications: Editor, Beyond Binary Histories: Re-imagining Eurasia to c. 1830, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999; Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context. c. 800-1830, Volume I: Integration on the Mainland , and Volume 2: Mainland Mirrors, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 2004; “Mainland-Archipelagic Parallels and Contrasts, 1750-1850,” in The Last Stand of the Autonomous States of Southeast Asia, Anthony Reid, ed., New York: MacMillan (in press). “Political Consolidation in Burma Under the Early Konbaung Dynasty, c. 1752-1820,” Journal of Asian History 30, 1996; “An Age of Commerce in Southeast Asia? Problems of Regional Coherence--A Review Article,” The Journal of Asian Studies 54 (3): 1995

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